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Craig McLaren RTPI Scotland director Craig McLaren looks back at the important things that have happened in Scottish planning in 2016

Plans to transform a historic Dundee city centre mews into a new design hub have been approved by planners. Andrew Black Design submitted a planning application in November to transform the Tay Street Lane Mews into a contemporary business hub accommodating some of the best of Dundee’s creative ta

A Scots businessman has given a group of friends and former employees an extra special Christmas present by leaving them his £13.2 million fortune in his will. Rae Grieve, a successful house builder and cattle breeder who died in April aged 83, made the extraordinary gesture in his will.

GTC expands into Scotland at new site in Bellshill A utility infrastructure and networks provider has secured its first premises in Scotland at a newly completed industrial development in Bellshill.

A man in Germany has started the New Year with quite a shock - after finding himself bricked in to his own home. The home owner in Mainhausen, Hesse, opened his front door on Monday to find someone had quietly built a brick wall in front of it during the night, police confirmed.

Senior planning officials have rejected Donald Trump’s plans to expand his Aberdeenshire golf resort by building 2,750 new homes and holiday flats. The President-elect had bid to build a far less ambitious and cheaper version of the vast holiday and sports resort he originally fought for in 20

View from the north of the Aden Park site Plans have been lodged to build new homes in an Aberdeenshire village on behalf of Castlehill Housing Association.

East Dunbartonshire Council’s Planning Board has granted planning permission to build a new primary school in Bearsden, allowing the final project design to be progressed to financial close. The new school is set to be built on the site of St. Andrew’s Primary School in Duntocher Road, Bearsden

A permanent home for the Great Tapestry of Scotland will be built in Galashiels after Scottish Borders councillors voted in favour of the location for the project. The £6 million development will see the town's post office brought back into use, a former Poundstretcher store demolished and a new bu

Councillors will be asked in March to formally approve the latest blueprint for future development in Aberdeenshire after Scottish Ministers concluded their assessment of the council’s vision for the region. This marks the near completion of a four-year process of identifying how housing and busin

BGF’s Patrick Graham (left) with Campion Homes chairman and MD Pete Bell Deferred starts on a number of larger projects last year has affected performance and profits at Campion Homes, the builder said.

A grade B listed Town House in Lochgelly has received a makeover and stylish conversion into four flats by Fife Council Building Services. The work has involved sensitive restoration retaining and restoring many of the original features of the building.

Plans have been lodged to create Dundee’s first drive-through coffee shop. Starbucks is poised to move into a unit just off the A90, creating 80 jobs.

Home of golf now home of Scotland’s most expensive street St. Andrews now has the accolade of homing Scotland’s most expensive street, according to research from Bank of Scotland.

Our daily delve into the weird and wonderful world of construction has thrown up some bizarre, innovative and thought-provoking articles. This top ten of the most clicked by our readers throughout 2016 is no different.